Sir,” said I, “may I presume to ask your majesty, if strangers be obliged to observe this law?” “Without doubt,” returned the king (smiling at the occasion of my question), “they are not exempted, if they be married in this island.”
I returned home much depressed by this answer; for the fear of my wife’s dying first, and that I should be interred alive with her, occasioned me very uneasy reflections. But there was no remedy; I must have patience,
Sir,” said I, “may I presume to ask your majesty, if strangers be obliged to observe this law?” “Without doubt,” returned the king (smiling at the occasion of my question), “they are not exempted, if they be married in this island.”
I returned home much depressed by this answer; for the fear of my wife’s dying first, and that I should be interred alive with her, occasioned me very uneasy reflections. But there was no remedy; I must have patience,
